[Buildroot] [RFC] scanpypi: handle packages with wrong metadata

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:32:50 +0100, yegorslists at googlemail.com wrote:
> From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
> 
> Some packages like python-adafruit-ads1x15 have different values in
> PyPI metadata and setup.py or tar file name.
> 
> Use package name (self.pkg_name) derived from tar file name instead
> of metadata_name taken from JSON.
> 
> Also output the missing key when trying to setup arguments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>

Do we really want to do this? Shouldn't we instead ask the upstream
maintainers to fix their Python package? I have the feeling that this
is a slippery road, and we could start adding lots and lots of weird
logic to support packages with wrong metadata.

If it's only fixing one specific package, I'd say the script should
instead detect the inconsistency, and bail out.

Best regards,

Thomas
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